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A 55-year-old man fears he may have been infected with HIV after being
stabbed with a syringe outside a hotel in the Perth suburb of Midland.
The victim, who wants to be known as Harry, says he was on a train to
Midland on Saturday night when he refused several request for money
from a man.
He says when they got off the train, the man stabbed him twice in the
shoulder with a syringe before saying welcome to the world of HIV.
The victim says he has to wait three months for blood tests to confirm
if he has contracted the disease and says this man must be caught
before he can do it again.
[...]
The offender is described as an Aboriginal man aged between 25 and 35.
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The "victim" doesn't want to be identified, but he's showing off his
tattoo in the picture on the website. :)
So, we have a 55 year old man who MAY have been infected with HIV.  It
sounds like quite a nice little retirement plan.  HIV science would
have us believe this man will quite happily live without symptoms of
the disease for over ten years, and then there's a whole range of
wonder drugs for him to thrown down his throat.  And all this time
he'll be collecting social security.  Nice.
I wonder why the man has to wait three months to find out whether he's
been infected with deadly HIV?
The last sentence of the article is a nice touch.
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The Health Department of WA says there is a very slim chance a
55-year-old man stabbed with a syringe near the Midland train station
has contracted HIV.
The victim was told 'welcome to the world of HIV' when he was stabbed
in the shoulder by a man he refused to give money to.
The Department's Director of Communicable Disease Control Paul Van
Buynder says there has never been a case in WA of a person contracting
the virus after being attacked by someone with a syringe.
"There was one health care worker in the last 25 years while we've
been monitoring this that did sustain a needle stick injury with a
known HIV positive patient and that patient did seroconvert despite
taking medication at the time, but that's the only case in the last 25
years in Western Australia," he said.
Dr Van Buynder says even if the assailant had the virus there would
only be a three in one thousand chance of the man contracting it. 
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Mar 11 12:32 PM US/Eastern
By LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
  CHICAGO (AP) - At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a
sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to
the first study of its kind in this age group.
A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually
transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19, while the highest
overall prevalence is among black girls-nearly half the blacks studied had
at least one STD. That rate compared with 20 percent among both whites and
Mexican-American teens, the study from the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention found.
About half of the girls acknowledged ever having sex; among them, the rate
was 40 percent. While some teens define sex as only intercourse, other
types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some infections.
For many, the numbers likely seem "overwhelming because you're talking
about nearly half of the sexually experienced teens at any one time having
evidence of an STD," said Dr. Margaret Blythe, an adolescent medicine
specialist at Indiana University School of Medicine and head of the
American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on adolescence.
But the study highlights what many doctors who treat teens see every day,
Blythe said.
Dr. John Douglas, director of the CDC's division of STD prevention, said
the results are the first to examine the combined national prevalence of
common sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent girls. He said the
data, from 2003-04, likely reflect current rates of infection.
"High STD rates among young women, particularly African-American young
women, are clear signs that we must continue developing ways to reach those
most at risk," Douglas said.
The CDC's Dr. Kevin Fenton said given that STDs can cause infertility and
cervical cancer in women, "screening, vaccination and other prevention
strategies for sexually active women are among our highest public health
priorities."
The study by CDC researcher Dr. Sara Forhan is an analysis of nationally
representative data on 838 girls who participated in a government health
survey. Teens were tested for four infections: human papillomavirus, or
HPV, which can cause cervical cancer and affected 18 percent of girls
studied; chlamydia, which affected 4 percent; trichomoniasis, 2.5 percent;
and herpes simplex virus, 2 percent.
Blythe said the results are similar to previous studies examining rates of
those diseases individually.
The results were prepared for release Tuesday at a CDC conference in
Chicago on preventing sexually transmitted diseases.
HPV can cause genital warts but often has no symptoms. A vaccine targeting
several HPV strains recently became available, but Douglas said it likely
has not yet had much impact on HPV prevalence rates in teen girls.
Chlamydia and trichomoniasis can be treated with antibiotics. The CDC
recommends annual chlamydia screening for all sexually active women under
age 25. It also recommends the three-dose HPV vaccine for girls aged 11-12
years, and catch-up shots for females aged 13 to 26.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has similar recommendations.
Douglas said screening tests are underused in part because many teens don't
think they're at risk, but also, some doctors mistakenly think, '"Sexually
transmitted diseases don't happen to the kinds of patients I see.'"
Blythe said some doctors also are reluctant to discuss STDs with teen
patients or offer screening because of confidentiality concerns, knowing
parents would have to be told of the results.
The American Academy of Pediatrics supports confidential teen screening,
she said.
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